Control Resonant Trophy Guide & Roadmap

Unlocks after Main Mission: The Unknown Resonant. The trophy unlocks after leaving “The Gap” (not immediately when defeating the boss). This is an optional Resonant not needed for story progress.

“Unknown” is the last zone you reach in the story. After Main Quest: The Hedron Link, you automatically get the Side Quest: Pope’s Research. You have to do this side quest first – in the Unknown Zone you will find research balloons, interact with them and they will drop crates with antennas inside. Place the antennas in the red circles nead the balloon (in correct order). Then a “Gravity Well” appears that transports you to the next island.

After you reach the southern-most island with the “Evac Building” text on the map, use the Gravity Well there to reach the northern-most island with the “Field Office” text on map. You will automatically start the quest “The Unknown Resonant” when you go there.

Defeat the enemies inside the building there to rescue 4 soldiers. They will open the door forward. Then you see 4 sheds, you must hit the glowing one that’s out of sync, 4 times in a row to break the pattern and open the door forward. Then you must turn on the power to the next door. Follow the path left of the locked door to find the power, carry it to the next cube, and from there to the door (you must be very quick for this). In the next building go upstairs, then go over the rooftops to the right and you’ll reach a plaza with enemies. Defeat them and enter the elevator in the next building to reach the Resonant.

Unlocks after Main Mission: The Underpass Resonant. The trophy unlocks after leaving “The Gap” (not immediately when defeating the boss).

To reach this Resonant you must go to the “The Spire” in the Underpass zone (zoom in on the map to see the white text over this area). You reach the Underpass automatically from story progress. Use the prompt on The Spire from afar, can be done when standing north-east from the fast travel door (see map below), this will add the quest to the quest log. Then climb up the Spire using Gravity Shift ability. After some climbing you will eventually reach a locked door leading to the boss. You must collect the 3 keys from the floating islands around this area to open the doors to the boss. One is left of the door, one to the right, and one opposite the door in the direction where you climbed up.

Unlocks after Main Mission: The Park Resonant. The trophy unlocks after leaving “The Gap” (not immediately when defeating the boss). This is an optional Resonant not needed for story progress.

“The Park” is an entirely optional area that you don’t visit during the story. In the north-east corner of Central you will find “The Park Checkpoint” (zoom in on map to see it). Go through there to reach the Park. You can go there any time after reaching Central zone.

In “The Park”, drop down the big hole in the middle where on the map it shows the white text “New Mold strains?”. There you will find a mold you can eat. Eat it to start the Resonant quest, then 3 more molds get marked.

You must now eat the next 3 molds:

Mold 1 (Pizzeria) requires you to go through the Sewers in the north-west corner of The Park. Defeat the enemies in the objective area to open the door to the Pizzeria. The mold is sometimes a bit buggy and doesn’t have the interact prompt, in this case attack the windows of the Pizzeria from outside and the yellow fog in the Pizzeria should go away so you can interact with the mold.

Mold 2 (Minimart) is in the south-west corner of The Park, this is the easiest to reach. Just defeat the enemies to open the door to the Minimart.

Mold 3 (Gym) is in the north-west corner of The Park. Again defeat the enemies to open the door.

Once you’ve eaten all 3 Molds you must return to the spot where the quest started, where you ate the first mold in the hold in the middle of The Park. The Mold Door here will now open and leads to the Resonant.

Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed, unlocks after Main Mission: The Central Resonant. The trophy unlocks after leaving “The Gap” (not immediately when defeating the boss). You are required to defeat this Resonant to advance the “Contain the Crisis” Main Story.

To reach this Resonant you must go to the “Patterned Factory” in Central zone (zoom in on the map to see the white text over this area). Use the prompt on the Patterned Pipes on the south wall of the factory building, this will add the quest to the quest log. Then enter through the destructible door on the rooftop of the factory, and inside use the elevator to the bottom floor to find the boss.

Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed, unlocks after Main Mission: The West Incursion Zone Resonant. The trophy unlocks after leaving “The Gap” (not immediately when defeating the boss). You are required to defeat this Resonant to advance the “Contain the Crisis” Main Story.

To reach this Resonant you must first have done the Jesse quest “The Incursion Fault” which will automatically get marked in your quest log when entering The West Incursion Zone for the first time (the region in the top left of the world map). This quest gives you the Gravity Shift ability, then you can cross the gap to the theater where the Resonant is. On the left side of the long gap you can then use Gravity Shift and jump over to the side of a building and follow the path to the theater.

As you reach the endgame, you should have enough materials to craft new skills, thus reaching Aberrant Strength 100. Focus on crafting upgrades that increase Strength by +3 or +5 first, then +1. If you’re missing materials, you can always buy some at the Vendor, provided that you have the required Vendor level (from leveling up the regions by doing quests and the activities  marked on map). If you want, you can reload one of the prior autosaves to get your materials back, or duplicate your profile save in the title screen to have a backup.

Health Upgrades look like big “clown crates”:

Each zone has 15 levels x 7 Zones = 105 Zone Upgrades. You only need 40/105. The events get marked on the map with a white arrow icon  and these refresh when you kill Resonants.

Power Upgrades look like big “metal crates”:

The abilities are unlocked from defeating the Resonant main bosses:

1. The West Incursion Zone Resonant
2. The Central Zone Resonant
3. The Underpass Resonant
4. The Park Resonant
5. The Unknown Resonant

Then you can equip them in The Gap (hold ) by interacting with the Mural. They are the abilities you activate with / / .

To equip an ability in the 6th slot and unlock this trophy, you must do Side Quest: Pope’s Research to get the “Resonant Token”. Then interact with the Mural in The Gap and equip any 6 abilities.

You can craft the same artifact 30 times for this and it will count toward the trophy. If you have sufficient materials you can keep crafting the same artifacts.

Afterward you can find one FBC Taskboard in each zone. Refer to FBC Taskboard Locations.

FBC Tasks are short mini quests that can be started by interacting with these noticeboards. FBC Tasks include reaching a specific scouting location, defeating enemies, escorting FBC agents back to the nearest base or safe location and many more. There are 7 boards and 6 tasks per board for 42 total tasks. You only need any 20 of them, there are many more than you need. More tasks unlock as you advance the story. You can still clean these up after the story.

1. Freeze Frame
2. The Party Won’t Stop
3. The Complete Set
4. A New Directive
5. Into The Valley Of Death
6. Panopticon Service Request

This trophy takes place during Side Quest “The Party Won’t Stop“. It starts automatically when going to the south-west corner in region “West Incursion Zone”. You will hear some music coming from an apartment building, going close to the quest will automatically add it to your quest log.

Approach from the higher street directly east of the quest marker and jump over to the roof. On the roof of the building you can enter through the door.

Then inside the building you find people dancing at a party. Interact with the karaoke machine at the party.

You must select the 9 correct lyrics. If you make a wrong choice, someone will drop dead, thus voiding the trophy. If you make a mistake, pause the game > go to Settings > Load Game > reload last save.

Correct Choices:

1. …gasoline (right)
2. …stress (left)
3. …so fleeting (right)
4. …too long (top)
5. …move (left)
6. …fear (bottom)
7. …everything (right)
8. …higher and higher (top)
9. …Shout (right)

The reason this is only “semi” missable is that the game keeps permanent saves after each main quest. So if you’ve missed it, you can always go to Settings > Load Game > reload one of the early game saves (e.g. after “Power Lines” / “Into the Sinkhole”) and head straight to the quest marker again, thus can still do it without starting a new game.

• Unsupervised Science (6 Testing Facility Locations)
• The Last Taxi (7 Taxi Locations)
• Crossing the Threshold

Unsupervised Science: requires you to access 6 underground laboratories and complete their puzzles (one per region, except The Underpass).

The Last Taxi: there are 7 taxis across Manhattan, one per region. Enter the taxi to be taken to a different area, then you must interact with taxis in the correct order to be taken back to Manhattan.

Crossing the Threshold: as part of this quest you will investigate the Dig Site Threshold.

The quest takes place exclusively in the “Unknown” zone. You have to find research balloons, which get marked on the map once you unfogged it. Each research balloon drops a crate with antennas inside. You must place the antennas in correct order in the red circles on the ground near the balloon. This will create “Gravity Wells” that let you travel between the islands of the “Unknown” zone.

» Dog Locations

• New Growth
• Carbon Copy Part I
• Carbon Copy Part II
• Carbon Copy Part III

Command is an ability that is unlocked from the quest The Unknown Resonant. Once you’ve unlocked it, a purple head icon will be displayed in the bottom right corner of the screen. Build up 3 charges by defeating enemies. Then you can press on the D-Pad to command an enemy and get it to fight for you for a limited time. Breaker enemies are oversized Hiss enemies built out of smaller Hiss. The Hiss Transporter (rogue bus), is a good example. You’ll run into these regularly in Central, including during “Hold the Line”  World Events. Once you spot one, hit it with Command and the trophy is yours.

First, you must buy the Talent called “Dominance”. You do this by going to the hub area “The Gap” (hold to teleport there) and interact with the little stone circle. It’s the very first talent at the very bottom for 1 talent point.

Then “Dominance” is triggered whenever you falter (stun) an enemy and perform an finisher, you will see a white icon in the bottom left of the screen that quickly depletes. You have to keep this effect going for 60 seconds by quickly chaining finishers together to refresh the Dominance effect.

The easiest method is to go to Options > Assist Mode > enable “One-Hit Falters” (check this box). Then you can farm it on the training enemy in the Gap. Interact with the big stone in the Gap, next to the stone circle where you bought the talent. The training enemy will keep spawning infinitely every few seconds. Hit it once to stun it with the assist mode setting > do finisher > repeat for 60 seconds. Don’t let the white Dominance icon in the bottom left corner deplete at any point, each finisher you do refills it.

To perform a Perfect Dodge, you’ll first want to unlock the talent “Perfect Dodge” (by interacting with the small stone circle in The Gap).

Now perform a perfect dodge on 3 attacks within 6 seconds by pressing just before the attack hits you. If done correctly, time will briefly slow down and you see a blue “lighting” icon in the bottom left corner. To make this easier, go to Options > Assist Mode > Perfect Dodge Window = 400. This makes the timing much easier. You can do it in any combat encounter. This works well against the flying enemies that shoot a red laser at you, because it’s one persistent ongoing attack you can dodge the same laser 3 times in quick succession.

Equip one in each slot. You will unlock them from main and side quests and buying them from vendors (after leveling up the zones sufficiently). You should get one of each automatically from main quests, except accessory, which you can buy from the vendor in Downtown, he sells a pair of glasses. You will unlock plenty customization items from the other side quests you have to do for trophies.

Each map zone has 15 levels, which you can see by pressing on the map. You increase the level by completing the zones (finding collectibles, doing quests, other activities marked on map). As part of some main quests you will automatically level up the zones enough to earn this trophy.

Then you can interact with the big metal pillar in The Gap (hold ) to buy Combo Finishers.